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Erick Setiawan
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Erick Setiawan

Erick Setiawan was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents and moved to the United States in 1991. He is a graduate of Stanford University and currently lives in San Francisco.

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Of Bees and Mist will be released on July 06, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Boston Globe, October 4, 2009
...Pick of the week Haley Dunn of Titcombs Bookshop in East Sandwich recommends Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan (Simon & Schuster): In this magical-realist debut novel, Meridia marries the charming but naïve Daniel to escape her bleak home. Soon her...
Blogcritics.org, September 1, 2009
...Erick Setiawan?s first novel, Of Bees and Mist, is a phenomenal achievement. Although it is an example of what some have described as ?magical realism,? it is unfair to label...
San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, 2009
...re more likely to feel perpetually displaced rather than abundantly connected. That's why San Francisco computer scientist-turned-author Erick Setiawan regularly used literature as an escape from a trifold identity struggle - born in Jakarta, Indonesia,...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, July 15, 2009
...the hot oppressive sound and smell of buzzing bees tests her limits. In a timeless world of enchantment, Erick Setiawan's ?Of Bees and Mist? is a unique view of love, marriage and life. Instead of worn out cliches, Setiawan breathes new life into the...
STLtoday.com, May 22, 2009
...Maples Stories,' a collection of Updike classics, is due out Aug. 4. ? 'Of Bees and Mist' by Erick Setiawan (Simon & Schuster, Aug. 4). Part love story, part family saga and part fantasy, this story is rooted in the author's childhood in Jakarta...
Cerebral Girl in a Redneck World, December 30, 2009
...favorite 5 books read this year: Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan The Color Purple by Alice Walker Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I can't wait to get started in 2010! I...
Reading In Appalachia, September 14, 2009
...After by William Forstchen The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Ravens by George Dawes Green Undress Me In the...
PowellsBooks.BLOG, September 2, 2009
...Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan Reviewed by Christine Thomas Miami Herald Forget the melting pot. When you're raised within a conglomeration of cultures and geographies, you're more likely to feel perpetually displaced...
Book Chatter and other stuff..., August 7, 2009
...Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading . Here's my one find: Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan Here's the blurb from the publisher: Of Bees and Mist is the tale of Meridia -- raised in a sepulchral house where ghosts dwell in mirrors, she spends...
In the Shadow of Mt. TBR, May 24, 2009
...and read it next.   And in the “being responsible” vein, I have Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan to read for Barnes & Nobles First Look program, so maybe Bees should be next.  And I’ve been stalled out in Emma by Jane Austen for ages...